Look Your Best At The Tomato Art Fest

It's here, it's here, it's finally here! Open up your closets and drawers, because it's time to plan your perfect Tomato Art Festival fashions!

One of my favorite things about the Tomato Arts Festival, besides the art and food, are the outfits that people put together. It's a day to play dress up and put on your red. Wear whatever your little heart desires because everyone's doing it and you can't take it too far.

Adults, children and pets are sporting this year's hottest looks, so try your luck out for the contests: Best Tomato Fairy/Elf Costume and Faux Paw Fashion Show. Click on the links for details and times so that you don't miss your chance to be the belle of the ball.

I hope you're ready for the Best Art Festival of the year, because it's finally here!! For one day only transform yourself into a tomato red wearing, bloody mary drinking, art and music loving beautiful budding tomato.

I put together my own little dream fashion show with the prettiest products from Etsy.com. I hope they inspire you to look you best at the Tomato Art Fest! See you there.

Red Dress, Tie Dyed Top

Necklace, Beads

Red Scarf, Red Cut-off Shorts

Red Hat, Red Wedge Shoes

Red Dress, Tomato Purse

Red Drop Earrings, Tomato Earrings

Red Satin Flats, Baby Doll Shoes

Little Girl's Dress, Boy's Red Shirt with Tie

Tomato Dog Collar, Tomato Tote Bag

Where Words Fail, Music Speaks

Music moves me.  It inspires all that I do from the moment I wake up until I fall asleep at night.  It is one of the greatest joys in my life and I will live the rest of my days dreaming about it. 

In my last post, I had so much fun choosing items from Etsy.com for my fashion article, that I wanted to do it again featuring my favorite music and guitar items.  Below are some pieces that I hand picked and I hope you enjoy them!  Please share, leave a comment and tell me why you love music!

Yellow Guitars, Vintage Microphone

Guitar Print, Girl and Guitar Drawing

Mosaic Guitar Brooch, Guitar Coin Purse

Vintage Guitar Print, Music Notebook

Organic Guitar Teething Ring, Guitar Tea Set

Guitar Cookie Cutter, Wooden Guitar Bowl

Blue Guitar Ashtray, Guitar Toothpick Holder

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Art Crawl's Fashion Finds A New Nashville Style

Last Saturday night, my fabulous photographer friend, Jill Batson, and I set out to find the best dressed in Nashville at the Downtown Art Crawl.

I chose Art Crawl as the perfect evening to find new and interesting fashion trends because the crowd that collects around 5th Avenue for the Arts is extremely diverse from hipsters to old rich people and everyone else in between. It didn't take long to run right into what we were looking for -- those who were fashion forward and not afraid to wear what our Mother's don't understand.

Kat Dickie at Tinney Contemporary

I am by no means a fashion expert, but I started playing dress up at a very young age and fell in love with clothes and accessories before I could talk. After high school I worked in a designer resale shop for three years in Texas called IZ Fashions, learning labels and putting together outrageous outfits for window displays. It was a fashion fantasy world and still today I long for playing dress up in designer clothes.

Musician, Jonathan Griscom and artist, Dean Tomasek

Inspired by Nashville's Fashion Week, I wanted to find what real people wear when they go out and I'm not the only one who wonders this -- Nashville fashion blogger, Heidi Jewell's eye for street style was recently mentioned on CNN.com.

When I'd ask, Where do you like to shop? All the answers started sounding the same. Everyone said, Thrift stores! Some favorites mentioned are vintage thrift stop, Goodbuy Girls in East Nashville and the local designer hot spot, Local Honey in the Belmont-Hillsboro area.

Katha Harris

If you're not sure where to start shopping in Nashville, check out this awesome online shop directory called, NashVintage and if you're not sure what to shop for, I noticed some of the hottest trends for Spring are floral sun dresses, lace tights, ankle boots, hats, scarfs and large jewel toned necklaces.

I hand picked a few items from Etsy.com below, so you can see examples and ideas to start your new Nashville look.  Click the caption for more.

Hat with feather, Hat with jewels, Hat with flower

Floral dress 1, Floral dress 2, Floral dress 3

Black lace leggings, Pink floral leggings, Pink and black floral leggings

Tan ankle boots, Camel ankle boots, Brown ankle boots

Emerald jewel necklace, Aqua jewel necklace, Pink jewel necklace

Pink scarf, Green and white scarf, Rainbow scarf

Thank you for reading!  Please share, leave a comment and email me at beth@binglishART.com with your own fashion forward ideas.

Photos by Jill Batson Photography 2011.  All rights reserved.